Android AppBar Text Color Aren't Changing

Question

I can't change the color of android windows title bar text color. I don't know what is the name to this. So I'm providing you a screenshot to understand. please see the blow image: ScreenShot

I searched for this question, but i didn't get any tutorials or answer from another forum. my post activity is showing the text color white. but home activity and another activity showing the text color Black.

I'm using toolbar layout. below provided toolbar xml code:

toolbar_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true">

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:elevation="0dp"
        app:elevation="0dp"
        android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">

        <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:elevation="0dp"
            android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
            android:weightSum="1"
            app:contentInsetLeft="0dp"
            app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
            app:contentInsetStartWithNavigation="0dp"
            app:elevation="0dp"
            android:background="@color/red"
            app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">

            <RelativeLayout
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content">

                <net.gurujibd.jamunanews.view.PhenomenaTextView
                    android:id="@+id/toolbarTitle"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                    android:layout_gravity="start"
                    android:gravity="center_vertical"
                    android:text="@string/app_name"
                    android:textColor="@color/title_color"
                    android:textSize="21sp"
                    android:textStyle="bold" />


                <ImageButton
                    android:id="@+id/imgBtnSearch"
                    android:layout_width="22dp"
                    android:layout_height="22dp"
                    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
                    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
                    android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
                    android:background="@drawable/ic_search" />

                <RelativeLayout
                    android:id="@+id/notificationView"
                    android:layout_width="35dp"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                    android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/imgBtnSearch"
                    android:background="?selectableItemBackgroundBorderless"
                    android:clickable="true">

                    <ImageView
                        android:id="@+id/notiIcon"
                        android:layout_width="22dp"
                        android:layout_height="22dp"
                        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
                        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                        android:src="@drawable/ic_notification" />

                    <TextView
                        android:id="@+id/notificationCount"
                        android:layout_width="16dp"
                        android:layout_height="16dp"
                        android:layout_alignTop="@+id/notiIcon"
                        android:layout_marginBottom="13dp"
                        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
                        android:background="@drawable/badge_circle"
                        android:gravity="center"
                        android:padding="0dp"
                        android:text="5"
                        android:textColor="#FFF"
                        android:textSize="9sp"
                        android:textStyle="bold" />

                </RelativeLayout>


            </RelativeLayout>

        </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

        <View
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="0.7dp"
            android:background="@color/toolbar_boarder" />

    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

toolbar.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:elevation="0dp"
    app:elevation="0dp"
    android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
        android:elevation="0dp"
        android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:weightSum="1"
        app:elevation="0dp"
        app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"/>

    <View
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0.7dp"
        android:background="@color/toolbar_boarder" />

</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

hope i will get solution for this question.

thanks.

Answer 1

That is called status bar.

For api above 21:

In style.xml

<item name="android:statusBarColor">@color/status_bar_color</item>
<item name="android:windowLightStatusBar">false</item>

here

1.(added in api 21)android:statusBarColor is background color of status bar and

2.(added in api 23)android:windowLightStatusBar value false makes status bar text color white and gray is true.

For all api level, only changing status bar background color

It takes it's color from from style.xml

<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/primary_dark</item>

Change primary_dark from colors.xml to change status bar color

<color name="colorPrimaryDark">#bd3874ff</color>